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Hydrostratigraphic Characterization of Paleozoic Formations in Northwestern Colorado

A.L. Geldon

Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists

... and 4 basins within the study area. Uplifted areas include the Park Range, Gore Range, Front Range, Sawatch Range, Elk Mountains, White River Plateau...

The Isotopic and Trace Element Geochemistry of Dolomite: The State of The Art

Lynton S. Land

Special Publications of SEPM

... with oxygen isotopic changes during the diagenesis of limestone substantiates recent suggestions that experimentally determined distribution coefficients...

The role of attenuation in the formation of the Railroad Valley structural basin, east-central Nevada: Detachment control of petroleum reservoirs

Robert D. Francis, Charles T. Walker

AAPG Bulletin

... of the White Pine Range (Lumsden, 1964) and small escarpments, aligned springs, and vegetation in the bajada along the eastern side of Railroad Valley (Foster...

Abnormal Formation Pressure: A Review

L.A. Pickering, G.J. Indelicato

Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists

... the solid particles due t o the expansion coefficients, and if the pore fluids cannot escape, then the formation pressure will become abnormally high...

Subduction in the Indonesian Region

Warren Hamilton

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... sides of the arc aggregate. A small plate that includes northeastern Sulawesi is rotating clockwise over the Celebes Sea lithosphere, and is bounded...

Multicomponent Seismic Studies of the Gas-hydrate System at the Storegga Slide

Stefan Bunz, Jurgen Mienert, Karin Andreassen

AAPG Special Volumes

... termination of enhanced reflections. The BSR is shown as a reflection proper with reversed polarity only across a small distance of about 600800 m (19682625 ft...

Northwest Margin of California Continental Borderland: Marine Geology and Tectonic Evolution

James K. Crouch

AAPG Bulletin

.... 211-215. Crouch, J. K., et al, 1978, Multichannel seismic reflection and sonobuoy refraction data in the outer southern California borderland: U.S....

Changes in Flow Direction at a Point Caused by Obstacles During Passage of a Density Current

Stephen A. Morris,, Jan Alexander

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... of flow propagation in the small tank. A) At T = 2 s the head of the flow had just passed the leading corner of the obstacle (denoted by the white dot...

Permeability and acoustic velocity controlling factors determined from x-ray tomography images of carbonate rocks

Nathaly L. Archilha, Roseane M. Missagia, Cathy Hollis, Marco A. R. de Ceia, Samuel A. McDonald, Irineu A. Lima Neto, David S. Eastwood, and Peter Lee

AAPG Bulletin

..., An approximation for the Xu-White velocity model: Geophysics, v. 67, p. 1406–1414, doi:10.1190/1.1512786. Knofczynski, G. T., and D. Mundfrom, 2008...

Late Cretaceous Volcanism in South and Central Texas--Stratigraphic, Structural, and Seismic Models

Thomas E. Ewing , S. Christopher Caran

GCAGS Transactions

... significant potential for additional small discoveries. Production is from isolated reservoirs within mounds of altered volcanic tuff and associated...

Pore-water chemistry: A proxy for tracking the signature of ongoing silica diagenesis

Shahab Varkouhi, Nicholas J. Tosca, Joseph A. Cartwright

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

...., and Davies, R.J., 2007, Morphological development of basin-scale silica diagenetic fronts revealed with 2D seismic reflection data: offshore Sakhalin...

New Red Sandstone Floodplain and Piedmont Sedimentation in the Hebridean Province, Scotland

Ron J. Steel

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... of sedimentary deposits of braided rivers: Sedimentology, v. 1, p. 167-190. FAHNSTOCK, R. K., 1963, Morphology and hydrology of a glacial stream--White...

Geology and Oil-Gas Prospects of the North Ustyurt Downwarp

V. V. Ishutin

Petroleum Geology: A Digest of Russian Literature

...-grained sandstones which contain thin shale beds. All the other series of the Upper Cretaceous are represented by white chalky organic limestones...

Inferring Stratigraphy from Seismic Data

R. E. Sheriff

AAPG Bulletin

... techniques to modern seismic reflection data: Paper presented at "New trends in seismic interpretation" seminar, Denver End_Page 541...

Grain-Size Distribution Using Log-Probability Plots: DISCUSSION

J. P. Syvitski, J. W. Murray

CSPG Bulletin

... and depositional processes: J. Sed. Petrology, v. 39, p. 1074-1106. White, C. M., 1940, The equilibrium of grains on the bed of a stream: Roy. Soc. London, Proc...

Slopes of the Southern California Continental Borderland: A Regime of Mass Transport

Michael E. Field, Brian D. Edwards

Pacific Section SEPM

... features kilometers on a side and approximately 50 m thick through failures tens to hundreds of meters on a side and about 1 m thick to very small...

Carbon dioxide sealing capacity: Textural or compositional controls? A case study from the Oklahoma Panhandle*

Constantin Cranganu and Hamid Soleymani

Environmental Geosciences (DEG)

... layer of Cimarron Anhydrite, Hennessey shale, a thin layer of Blaine Gypsum, and Cloud Chief/White Horse formations (Figure 1).The core sample...

New Data on the Occurrence of Oil in the Cambrian and Ordovician of the Kuldig Area, Latvian SSR*

V. Ya. Karpitskiy

Petroleum Geology: A Digest of Russian Literature

... detailed seismic work (reflection and refraction shooting) on the structure, as a result of which a structural map on the key reflecting horizon...

Chronostratigraphic Correlation of Lacustrine Deposits Using 87SR/86SR Ratios, Eocene Green River Formation, Wyoming, U.S.A.

M'bark Baddouh,, Alan R. Carroll, Stephen R. Meyers, Brian L. Beard, Clark M. Johnson

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... from the two cores show a strong positive correlation (r = 0.68), despite the likely presence of small temporal mismatches between approximately...

Bioluminesence in Toxicity Testing

Robert W. Sabaté, Arthur V. Stiffey, Edmund L. Dewailly

Environmental Geosciences (DEG)

... complex individuals and the small number normally used in an assay commonly cause large variations in test results. A test with a large number...

Enhanced Sediment Scavenging Due to Double-Diffusive Convection

Jeffrey D. Parsons , Macelo H. Garcia

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

..., the aggregation of small particles through electrostatic forces, is an extremely complicated process dependent on many sedimentological properties...

Detrital Magnetite as a Provenance Indicator

Jeffry D. Grigsby

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... in magnetite, or pleonaste (Fig. 1C), small to large, clark intergrowths in three possible directions parallel to the {100} planes of magnetite; 3...

A Nearly Complete Characterization of Permeability to Hydrocarbon Gas and Liquid for Unconventional Reservoirs: A Challenge to Conventional Thinking

Albert Cui, Raphael Wust, Brent Nassichuk, Ken Glover, Ron Brezovski, Cory Twemlow

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

.... The samples are: Dol – dolomite (white mottled), Qz– quartz (grey and beige), Ksp – potassium feldspar (yellow), Cc - calcite (reddish stained), mica...

Compaction and Porosity Evolution of Pliocene Sandstones, Ventura Basin, California

John C. Wilson, Earle F. McBride

AAPG Bulletin

... and replaces grains. Small quartz overgrowths were found in only two samples in the Ventura field (depths of 5,240 and 11,400 ft or 1,597 and 3,475 m...